Benoît Garnot is surely a prolific writer. I have made no attempt to count his books but the number is considerable, certainly if you include the edited ones. And here we have a history of the crime passionnel or crime of passion. The Frenchness of the concept is usually acknowledged in English by refraining from a translation. When I submitted the manuscript of Written in Blood, I had once or twice referred to the two crimes related in it as crimes passionnels. The publisher’s external revie...